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Since graduating from college in 2014, Chelsea Consalo not only found her footing in her family business, she’s running at the front of the pack of young professionals in the fresh produce industry.

Exports play a role in the marketing plans of many citrus grower-shippers, but that role can vary from company to company and season to season.

The Blend, a mushroom promotion success, now goes to Food Network.

Episode 44 of Tip of the Iceberg Podcast features an interview with Chelsea Consalo, vice president of produce operations for Consalo Family Farms.

Comparisons with the pandemic year of 2020 are difficult to make, but most organic marketers see continuing momentum for organics in 2021 after COVID-19 set new records for retail sales.

It has been a good year at retail for lemons and limes, and Limoneira has been in prime position to fulfill demand.

Yuma, Ariz.-based Bard Valley Date Growers reports that the retail date category grew $6 million to $114.7 million in 2020.

The Food and Drug Administration’s proposed rule on additional traceability requirements for certain foods is more complicated and expensive than it should be.

COVID-19 did nothing to subtract from banana demand, industry leaders say. In fact, the pandemic may have helped boost demand.

Working with two cooperatives of small banana producers in Peru and Ecuador, Montreal-based Equifruit Inc. expects steady supply in the months ahead, said Jennie Coleman, president of the firm.